In the popular movie "The Grassland at the End of the Sea", Chen plays his brother Du, and he plays the role of a needle in the film. This is a group fight drama. Du came to Inner Mongolia grassland to find his sister Du Siheng who had been separated for more than 60 years. In addition to fulfilling his mother's wish for many years, he kept a secret psychologically. This is also a spiritual journey of atonement.
To tell the truth, this role leaves Chen little performance space, but this role is very heavy. If the actors can't express Du Fu's complicated inner world well, the whole play can't make people have a great spiritual shock.
Director Dong Chengyi said: "I grew up watching Mr. Chen and his plays, and my mother is also his fan." I can invite him to play this time, so I have a bottom in my heart and the play will be stable. He is the anchor of our crew.
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Intrinsic complexity of performing roles
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The film is based on the real historical event of "3,000 orphans entering Inner Mongolia". The film began in Du's later years. He has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, and he has only the last six to nine months to live. For a long time, he was busy with his work and was not interested in Du Siheng. Du Siheng's mother found her "sister" for more than 60 years. Du Siheng was first left in Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute and then transported to Inner Mongolia to be raised by local herders. There is no news. But after finding out the brain tumor, Du finally decided to fulfill his mother's wish and embarked on a journey to Inner Mongolia to find his sister.
"One word' search' is the task of my whole movie."
Chen explained. How to find my sister? Why are you looking for a girl? It's all stipulated in the script. As an actor, what he has to do is how to accurately grasp the mentality of the role. "This is a very complicated psychological process. Du's heart has been stirring, just like a vat full of water of various colors. Originally, you could tell the color without stirring it, but from the moment he set foot on the journey, the stick kept stirring in the jar, and Du's inner world was turned upside down. Among them, there is his repentance, his nostalgia for his family, his pursuit of the meaning of life, and his mother's entrustment before his death. "
It is worthy of being an "old play bone", and Chen's performance ideas for this role are very clear. "In that environment, my performance is not a drama, but a drama of great joy and great sorrow", because it does not conform to the plot and the screenwriter and director's interpretation of this life. "What the director wants is that I can show Du's deep feelings, that is, the feeling that my eyes are arched from time to time, which can let the audience see the uncertainty of finding relatives. In addition, it is necessary to perform the physical state of Du brain tumor in the late stage. "
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Love and sincerity are the core of the film.
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"Every actor is waiting for a role he has been looking for for many years. Some people can't wait forever. I am very lucky, I have waited this time. " In Chen's view, film is a cultural carrier, which requires the creator to think clearly why he wants to make a film when he picks up the camera to make a film. "The creator must have some emotions to vent and pour out, and I think this emotion is love: love between couples, love between parents and children, love between comrades-in-arms, love between brothers and girlfriends. Love and sincerity are the core of "The End of the Sea is the Grassland" and the place that can impress the audience the most. "
One scene left a deep impression on Chen. At the end of The Sea is Grassland, Du finally hugged his sister Du Siheng, and they came to the home of Lisa, the grassland mother who adopted Du Siheng. In this play, the actor who plays Na Ren Sa in his later years is actually an amateur actor. He had never acted in a play before, but when director Dong Chengyi saw her, he was moved by her kind temperament, which reminded him of his Mongolian grandmother, so he decided to let her play Na Ren Sa in his later years. Chen has never seen the old lady before. After the filming of Yue Se by Du and Du Siheng, the old lady came out of the room. Chen saw that all the Inner Mongolia actors stood up automatically during the performance and surrounded the old lady. "I began to think that this is a respected elder in their ethnic group, and later I learned that they didn't know her. Then why did everyone react like that? That's because of their love for their mother. With this picture, I immediately felt the worship of my mother by this nation. "
Dong Shengyi saw this scene while filming and said decisively, "Well, this scene is still. Now call Guo Bao and let him shoot this scene immediately. " This is the scene where Du and Lisa meet for the first time at the end of the film. "This scene is hard to find, and it is also the scene that I have the deepest feeling in filming in recent years."
Recalling this rare performance experience, Chen said with emotion, "I think this film has restored the national love spirit and feelings of that generation. Now the audience who can go to the cinema to see this film is undoubtedly happy. In fact, in such a vast land of our motherland, there is never a lack of love stories. What you see today is just one of them. "
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Constantly acting, and finally practicing superb acting skills.
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Chen, 65, was born in Beijing. 1977 After graduating from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama, she was assigned to work in China Children's Art Theatre.
He is not the kind of actor who plays the leading role as soon as he debuts.
1980, 24-year-old Chen starred in Dadu River, which was his first film, directed by Lin Nong and Wang Yabiao. He plays Zhao Jianfeng, the battalion commander. At the end of the film, the most impressive thing is the picture of soldiers climbing over the bare iron chain bridge. It is said that before filming, the actors drank "Zhuangxing wine" together like Red Army soldiers. Director Lin Nong said to them, "I have three sons, climb up, son." If anyone falls and disappears, I will give my son to whom! " "
At the command, "battalion commander" Chen took the lead, followed by other actors. When Chen climbed the 100-meter-long chain, he found that his sandals were gone, and his feet were worn out and bleeding. "I was so nervous and scared." .
"Dadu River" made the audience fully feel Chen's masculinity, and this temperament was also continued in his later film and television performances.
However, what impressed me most was his movies "The Whip of God" and "Soul Girl".
The Whip of God was shot in 1986, when this kung fu film set off a craze in Chinese mainland. The film was directed by Zhang Zien. He plays a big villain-Tianjin's famous local ruffian "Glass Flower". Chen enriches the characters by playing with fans, playing with snuff bottles and digging ears. He also intends to find a basis for the blindness and lameness of "Glass Flower", bring a villain into life, and show Chen's ability to control different roles.
But what impressed me most was the director's Soul Girl, which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Chen plays the lover of Xiang Ersao in the film. This guy is masculine and handsome, but selfish and cowardly at heart. After the relationship with Xiang Ersao was discovered, he quickly chose to make a clean break with Xiang Ersao. Although Chen didn't have much time to play, he was quickly remembered by the audience.
In fact, Chen hasn't acted in many movies. Especially after 2000, he shined in the field of TV dramas and almost disappeared in the field of movies. Altogether, there are four films, Baby Project, the Great Cause of Founding the People's Republic of China, operation mekong and the grassland at the end of the sea, all of which are supporting roles.
But for an actor, there are no small roles, only small actors. Every time Chen appears on the big screen, the audience can still feel his great charm, which comes from his long-term accumulated great influence in the field of TV dramas and his ability to interpret roles.
Chen's career as an actor is worth learning from today's young people.
He began to play various supporting roles, slowly honed his acting skills, and then ushered in his golden age in the field of TV dramas. Although he rarely appeared in the film industry, the audience never doubted his acting skills.
Not long ago, the video "Why is he still so young" was widely circulated on the Internet and became a mystery.
In an interview, he said that as an actor, "you have to accept more roles and don't pick them." Actors just have to keep playing. "
This may be the secret that he became the "anchor needle" in the eyes of director Dong Chengyi!
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